John Morris

Experience

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  Thames Water

  Apr 1993 - Oct 2007

  An innovative joint venture between eight equity partners delivering substantial elements of Scottish Water’s Capital Investment Programme of around 3,300 projects valued at approximately £2.8bn. In an environment of continual Government and Regulatory investigation and audit, I was responsible for:• Development and implementation of an IT strategy and service to meet the needs on a major new organisation undergoing massive structural change. • Senior contact and escalation point between the business and IT service providers.• Creation of detailed business cases, ‘Champion’ and obtain stakeholder buy-in for the definition, approval and implementation of IT initiatives which demonstrated clear return on investment.• Support Scottish Water to deliver best value-for-money IT services, challenge and benchmark IT costs, formulate and enforce commercial practices and tangibly demonstrate the value of investment in IT.• Provide trusted expert knowledge and guidance to senior and board level management; challenge the viability of new service demands and potential deviation from corporate IT strategy.• As a member of the Scottish Water senior management team, supported the development of the business and IT strategy for the 2006 to 2010 to 2014 regulatory periods including the identification and prioritisation of future business objectives and the investigation of new and innovative commercial and supply chain delivery options. Show less Thames Water Services were the de-regulated commercial services division of Thames Water providing asset maintenance and operations management, capital programme management, multi-utility services, facilities management, customer billing and interaction services.Reporting to the Finance Director, the role was responsible for ensuring blended In-house and off-shore teams provided IT service delivery and management together with application development, infrastructure, project and programme management. Responsibility for:• Ensuring compliance with corporate IT strategy, architecture, standards, policies and processes.• Senior point of contact for internal and external customer liaison and escalation across IT service delivery and IT project / programme delivery.• Providing IT strategy, technical guidance, costing and proposals for commercial bids, evaluating and engaging external consultants and contractors in support of bids. Establishing internal and external customer IT requirements, designing and implementing IT systems and services to tangibly deliver benefits and address issues.• Managing relationships and commercial/contractual requirements between internal and external customers and solution providers.Principal achievements include:• Merged the IT infrastructure, desktop, server and messaging services from multiple ‘bought in’ businesses into a single enterprise wide standards based environment.• Development of client/server, workflow and web based applications supporting all areas of the organisation.• Implemented IT applications and infrastructure in support of contracts to North West Water (UU) (NMSO2), Severn Trent, Southern Water, British Gas, UKAEA, Local Government Authorities and London Boroughs, London Underground (MetroNet), MOD (Aspire/ Allenby/Connaught), together with joint venture, alliance and partnering of business process outsourcing. Show less

  • Head of IT - Scottish Water Solutions (Secondment)

    Apr 2003 - Oct 2007

  • Various IT roles leading to IT Manager Thames Water Services

    Apr 1993 - Apr 2003
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  MWH

  Apr 2007 - Aug 2013

  Following the acquisition of Stansted Airport, Manchester Airports Group needed to migrate, replace or decommission circa 1,000 applications and systems owned and operated by Stansted’s parent company Heathrow Airport Holdings. • Responsible for the development of strategy and detailed plans for the rationalisation and merger of circa 20 finance systems including integration with airport mission critical operational systems.• Incorporation of planning, resources and change windows into a wider ICT Programme to ensure no disruption to airport operations during and following the deployments.• Responsibility for establishing business and technical requirements, solution selection, business case development, high level technical designs, commercial/procurement documentation and implementation planning at Project and Programme level.The work had to be done at pace to avoid service fees for the continued use of Heathrow systems.Value: £2bn (£126m ICT) Show less Responsibility for leading a multi discipline team designing, implementing and commissioning a single suite of P3M/PMO systems for delivery of National Grid’s 8 year RIIO capital programme; some 4,000+ projects covering electricity transmission; Sub-stations, Overhead Lines, Tunnels, Grid Connections and gas transmission pipelines; gas storage/pumping, liquid natural gas (LNG) plants valued at circa £22bn. • SaaS and PaaS P3M systems were deployed to 34 separate National Grid supply chain contractors providing a single suite of systems, securely accessible via the Internet enabling total visibility of portfolio and programme performance.• Responsibility for defining Solution Options in line with requirements, production of compelling business cases to underpin funding and sanction decisions together with detailed delivery plans, scope, schedules, budgets, resourcing, risk and opportunity management strategies. • Building strong, trust based relationships with key stakeholders including National Grid business leaders, external supply chain PMO and IT departments and National Grid IT leadership and suppliers.• Ensuring compliance with Digital governance and assurance processes to confirm solution builds match architecture/design principles and strategic roadmaps. • Proactively monitor and report on progress to stakeholders and forward plan and forecast to mitigate delivery risk. • Capabilities deployed included estimating, portfolio development, risk, cost/change management, planning and scheduling, PMO management system and integration with Enterprise systems including SAP and Ellipse.• Systems were provided SaaS/PaaS by MWH and had to meet the security and resilience requirements of systems used to maintain Critical National Infrastructure (CNI).• One of the most effective transformation programmes National Grid had ever undertaken with management of the systems being migrated to National Grid in house teams over time.Value: £22bn (£54m ICT) Show less Optimise is a new Joint Venture organisation delivering Design & EPC for Thames Water’s capital works on the network infrastructure for clean and waste water, covering the Thames Valley and North London regions. The scope of works includes Victorian water mains renewal, sewer upgrades, installing asset monitoring equipment (SCADA), Developer Services/new mains connections as well as planned and reactive/emergency maintenance.• Responsibility for coordinating JV partner IT, client IT and third party technology suppliers to establish a common suite of PMO and finance systems, stores management, work scheduling, GIS and field force automation systems together with a new Wide Area Network covering 20+ locations and integrated with Thames Water and Transport for London’s secure network access hubs.• Building and maintaining strong, trust based relationships with key stakeholders including business leaders, IT peers, suppliers and partners.• Early adoption of SaaS and cloud hosted infrastructure to speed deployment and reduce on-premise ICT costs together with innovative VR/AR tools for location of underground services, use of GIS mapping linked to Satellite Navigation to improve efficiency and customer updates, work scheduling enhancements to automatically comply with the London 2012 Olympic transport corridors, use of RFID tags and in vehicle WiFi to automate stores and asset data collection. • Extension of new systems and technology into the supply chain improving Contractor engagement, planning and providing “a single source of the truth” data repository.Programme Value: £850m Show less The Scottish Water Investment Selection System (SWISS) provided Scottish Water with the ability to manage, prioritise, optimise and perform “what if” scenario planning across their regulated income streams assigned to circa £880m of capital maintenance and £900m of capex between 24 departments over a 4 year regulatory period.• Provided as SaaS, responsibility for the design, build and implementation of SWISS, including the underpinning Wintel/Oracle platform.• Building strong relationships with Department leaders and Scottish Water’s IT leadership and suppliers to confirm solution builds match architecture/design principles and strategic roadmaps. • Proactively monitor and report on progress to stakeholders and forward plan and forecast to mitigate delivery risk. • Development of supporting business process to capture asset risks, needs, issues and potential solutions; together with scoring against business drivers/outcomes to enable the development of optimised capital programmes.• Complex stakeholder engagement across Scottish Water’s business to tangibly identify and quantify valid projects and benefits. Show less Responsible for management of a multi discipline team developing and maintaining MWH’s “mTools”, a comprehensive suite of integrated Asset, Project and Programme Management tools sold Software as a Service (SaaS) globally to support major asset owners, operators and EPC programmes. The role required: • Leading and motivating project teams, fostering a collaborative and high performing environment. • Oversight of the Software Delivery Lifecycle, engagement with platform operations teams for incident/problem management, change and configuration control. • Knowledge and experience of the processes and issues facing clients together with technical expertise on systems and infrastructure (Oracle for EMEA, Microsoft for US and Asia Pacific). • Management of 2nd and 3rd line support using a “follow the sun” arrangement together with ensuring service availability and resilience meeting high SLA and OLA requirements.Major clients globally included water companies, airports, power generators and utilities with typically over $100bn of assets being managed within the suite at any one time. Show less

  • Technical Lead Finance Systems - Manchester Airports Group (MAG)

    Nov 2012 - Aug 2013

  • Programme Systems Director - National Grid

    Jun 2011 - Oct 2012

  • Head of IT - Optimise Joint Venture - Thames Water

    Sept 2009 - Jun 2011

  • Technical Director - Scottish Water Investment Selection System

    Jan 2009 - Sept 2009

  • Technology Implementation Lead EMEA Region - MWH

    Apr 2007 - Jan 2009
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  Mace

  Oct 2013 - Oct 2019

  National Grid’s ISS Programme designs, builds and commissions complex security, surveillance and access control systems to 77 Critical National Infrastructure electricity transmission, gas transmission and gas distribution sites.• Responsible for managing cross-functional teams to configure, integrate, test, commission, document and hand over Operational Technology, LAN/WAN, OS, Middleware, COTs and bespoke software to enable delivery of the ISS Programme to time, quality and cost.• Build and maintain strong, trust based relationships between suppliers, Operational Technology, IT, site operations, key business stakeholders and partners.• Work across multi discipline, function and supplier teams to develop detailed delivery plans, scope, schedules, budgets, resourcing, risk and opportunity management strategies at Project and Programme level and ensure alignment with digital strategy, architecture and cybersecurity policy.• Proactively monitor and report on progress to stakeholders and forward plan and forecast to mitigate delivery risk. • Enabled substantial reductions in time taken to commission each site by supporting technical and business case development for new Identity and Access Management (IDAM) and Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity. The work was constrained by CNI cyber security, health and safety, regulatory, resource and commercial challenges and had to be completed within strict planned outage windows.Programme value: £400m Show less Consultancy work to establish a new Digital Portfolio to oversee 5 distinct ICT Programmes covering all the functions and services required by the Sellafield Enterprise.• Establishment of Portfolio functions in line with the Management of Portfolios (MOP) best practice.• Development of prioritisation and optimisation methodology to maximise and demonstrate benefits from ICT investments and underpin future strategic planning and Government business case / funding works. • Work across a multi discipline and multi function environment at all levels up to C-suite throughout the organisation to establish the scope, timelines, budgets, resourcing, risk and opportunity strategies for Digital projects and programmes.• Identified and quantified benefits arising from the consolidation of improvement and transformation programmes across the wider organisation. Value:£150m (ICT) Show less United Utilities is responsible for water and wastewater services in the North West of England.The development of strategy, business cases, solution options, procurement and delivery plans for a new suite of systems to support Engineer, Procure, Construct,P3M, Programme Management and Asset Management for United Utilities 2020 to 2025 infrastructure investment period, 1000+ construction and business change projects value circa £2bn.• Engagement with senior management and C-suite executive levels within the organisation and its supply chain to establish, prioritise and agree business needs. • Identification of Digital solutions (Primavera and SAP), preparation and presentation to senior management and C-suite executive levels of business cases, procurement options and quantifiable benefits.• Engagement with client and supply chain IT departments and systems integrators to develop detailed delivery plans, schedules, budgets, resourcing, risk and opportunity management strategies at Project and Programme level and ensure alignment with digital strategy, architecture and cybersecurity policy.Value: £7.8m (ICT) Show less NuGen was a UK nuclear joint venture to develop a new generation nuclear power station, Moorside on land in West Cumbria.• Responsible for the full lifecycle implementation of a Requirements Management system (IBM DOORS) to underpin the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) response for the NuGen, Moorside new nuclear plant.• Engagement with key business stakeholders within Technical, Design and Engineering, solution vendor IBM and client systems integrator to develop detailed delivery plans, schedules, budgets, resourcing, risk and opportunity management strategies and ensure alignment with digital strategy, architecture and cybersecurity policy. • Responsibility for delivery of systems cyber security case and subsequent cyber assurance and IT Health Check. • Responsibility for a continuous improvement programme for the organisations SAP system.• Engagement with senior management across the organisation to identify requirements and translate these into planned digital initiatives. Show less Horizon Nuclear Power are planning to build and operate the Wylfa Newydd new nuclear power station on Anglesey in North Wales. Mace was engaged to develop an “owners scope” for the non-nuclear island elements of the plant which will lead to the development, procurement and management of design, services and EPC contracts for the works.This work used my experience gained from implementing digital systems and operational technology in the design, engineer, procure, construct and commission of major/mega infrastructure projects. • Responsibility for the development of work packages covering Workers Transport, Facilities Management, Site Operations, Site Security, Induction Centre, Training and Simulation Building and Marine Off-load Facility (MOLF) operations.• Engagement across all departments and stakeholders to collate strategy and planning and enable the development of cost, time and quality improvements, procurement packages and establishment of an owners’ scope programme.• Liaison between the Development Consent Order (DCO) team and nuclear island ECP contractor to ensure changes in the strategy and delivery approach were reflected in the DCO. Show less Take full responsibility for managing Mace’s elements of the tender to provide construction management services to ITER, The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject.This work used my knowledge and experience of construction management together with my stakeholder, project and programme management skills gained on major/mega infrastructure projects. • Engagement across a partnership between Mace, Atkins, AREVA and China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) to collate, prepare, assure and submit a commercially and technically challenging tender with a value of circa 174M Euros.• Building and motivating collaborative, high performing teams and foster trust based relationships with key stakeholders and multi-national senior C-suite executives. • Understanding of Construction Management disciplines and best practices.• C-suite, Senior / Executive level engagement, negotiation and briefing.• Cross functional and cross borders workload planning, assurance and quality control.• Timely delivery of accurate, quality assured documents within a complex, multi party governance process. • Regular engagement with ITER commercial and technical departments as well as presenting and chairing client assessment sessions. Show less AMA is a joint venture between Areva, Mace and Atkins to Design, Engineer, Procure, Construct and Commission the Sellafield, Silos Direct Encapsulation Plant (SDP) a 2bn nuclear waste processing plant.• Full responsibility for ensuring the delivery of IT capabilities within the Programme including control of commercial, resource and funding/sanction aspects of the projects.• Development of strategy, Solution Options in line with requirements, production of compelling business cases together with detailed delivery plans, scope, schedules, budgets, resourcing, risk and opportunity management strategies. • Establishment of circa 100 systems including 2D-5D CAD, modelling tools, CAE, virtual and augmented reality BIM caves, P3M/project/programme management, commercial/procurement and finance systems to support successful delivery of SDP.• Development and implementation of a hybrid Azure cloud platform integrating SaaS, PaaS and on-premise storage (StorSimple) together with Cisco ASA and ISE.• Adoption of Secure By Design and NCSC best practice to ensure compliance with security constraints.• Development of technical and security cases for approval by Sellafield and compliance with Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR) guidelines for resilience and security of hosting Nuclear Information within public cloud infrastructure.• Leading motivated teams fostering strong relationships with business leaders, suppliers and client IT department.• Developing cloud governance and assurance processes to ensure solutions match architecture/design principles. • Cornerstone systems deployed include Dassault Enovia, Aveva e3d, Unifier, Oracle ERP and Primavera P6.• This work was the first time a cloud platform had been approved to hold nuclear information and use within UK and French offices.• The cloud approach was recommended to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority by Sellafield as the standard platform for their future major project setups.Value: £2bn (£24m ICT) Show less Development and delivery of a programme of work to rationalise 5 operating divisions within Sellafield into a single, new Operations Division comprising circa 5,000 staff.• Design and establishment of a new Programme Management Office (PMO) and Business Performance Office (BPO) to improve efficiency and information quality between the asset management, plant operations and project delivery disciplines. • Engagement with senior management and C-suite executives to identify, prioritise and agree business needs and development of IT/Digital systems strategy and roadmap to support the new Operations Division including recommendations on systems consolidation and planning for change and transformation of systems.• Engagement with client IT department to ensure alignment with digital strategy, architecture and cybersecurity policy.• Leading a cross-functional team working with Sellafield IT, their System Integrator and key subject matter experts to develop a hub and spoke integration capability collecting multiple operational data sources to populate a new corporate data mart/warehouse using MS SQL Server.• Led a development team using QlikView software to surface new reports and dashboards.• Managed the progressive introduction of the new reporting system at Board level / C-suite executive performance meetings. 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  • Programme Commissioning Lead, National Grid - Integrated Security Solution Programme

    Nov 2018 - Oct 2019

  • Associate Director - Energy and Utilities

    Oct 2013 - Oct 2019

  • Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Portfolio Lead - Sellafield

    Jul 2018 - Nov 2018

  • Programme Manager ICT systems (P3M, EPC, AM, PMO) - United Utilities

    Jul 2017 - Jul 2018

  • Programme Manager – GDA Requirements Management System & SAP - NuGeneration Nuclear

    Jan 2017 - Jul 2017

  • Work Package Lead – Horizon Nuclear Wylfa Newydd

    Jun 2016 - Jan 2017

  • Mace - Bid Lead - ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) – Paris, France

    Feb 2016 - May 2016

  • Head of ICT AMA Nuclear Ltd.

    Nov 2014 - Mar 2016

  • Digital Lead, Sellafield Programme Management Support

    Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
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  KBR, Inc.

  Oct 2019 - now

  Head of ICT/IM, Digital Operations Lead

  5 Partners delivering a £7bn EPCC programme of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) nuclear facilities on one of the world’s most complex and secure sites.• Responsibility for ensuring the delivery of IT capabilities within the Programme including control of commercial, resource and funding/sanction aspects of the projects.• Building and maintaining strong, trust based relationships with key stakeholders including C-suite, business leaders, IT peers, suppliers and partners within a SIAM operating environment.• Development of Digital strategy, “Green Book” business cases, defining Solution Options in line with requirements together with detailed delivery plans, scope, schedules, budgets, resourcing, risk and opportunity management strategies. • Proactively monitor and report on progress to stakeholders and forward plan and forecast to mitigate delivery risk. • Establishment of a fully cloud hosted collaboration environment adopting Microsoft Modern Workplace technology, InTune, Sentinel, DLP, Teams and MS365; integrated into a Security Operations Centre (SOC) compliant with Secure By Design and NCSC Cyber Assurance Framework to enable use with OFFICIAL SENSITIVE nuclear information.• Supporting the client (Sellafield) IT with establishment of a Common Data Environment (CDE), a hybrid cloud platform hosting circa 50 applications securely accessible via B2B; providing a single source of information, standards based Information Management and underpinning “Digital Twins” of complex nuclear waste handling plants.• Working in a SIAM environment, introducing cloud governance, a Design Authority and enhanced Cyber Assurance capability ensuring solution builds match architectures and designs. • Use of Azure DevOps, ARM/BICEP and Infrastructure as Code.• Development of a cloud Operating Model and Service Design, establishment of an Operations Team to provide support and management of the CDE applications. Show less